Introduction to Psychobiology /

Owings, Donald H.

Introduction to Psychobiology / Donald H. Owings, Richard G. Coss, Kenneth R. Henry - 3rd edition - New York : Custom Publishing, c2004 - xix, 491 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Includes references

Content

1. Prologue
2. Evolution, Genetics, and Experience
3. The Anatomy of the Nervous system
4. Neural conduction and synaptic transmission
5. The human genome project and and its impact on psychiatry
6. The visual system
7. Mechanisms of perception, conscious awareness and attention
8. Biology and behavior
9. Nervous System
10. Pavlov
11. Skinner
12. Neuroendocrinology of the stress response
13. Learning and Memory
14. Prenatal hormone exposure and sexual variation
15. Sex, sexual orientation and sex hormones influence
16. Critical events in the development of bird song
17. Reproductive and social behavior
18. Nature of proximate mechanisms underlying primate
19. Human maternal vocalizations to infants as biologically relevant signals
20. Early social learning and behavior
21. Predators and preys

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Introduction to Psychobiology
Evolution
Reproductive Success

WM 105 O97i 2004